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Re:Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a d... by thaumasiotes on Saturday October 27, 2018 @04:23AM (#18314849)
> If anything, situations like this should actually help your career—what better signal you’ve found a good vein of research?

How'd it go for Charles Murray?

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Re:Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a d... by drb91 on Saturday October 27, 2018 @06:31PM (#18318068)
Not the same situation—he lost status on the strength of his work.
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Re:Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a d... by fjsolwmv on Saturday October 27, 2018 @07:44AM (#18315330)
He had a long and successful career under the patronage of eugenicists and scientific racists who hung on to obsolete ideas after their time had past.
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Re:Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a d... by maehwasu on Saturday October 27, 2018 @09:42AM (#18315644)
I'm not sure that knee-jerkingly smearing him (by association) as a racist eugenicist quite disproves the point that tenure is not protection from misguided attacks.
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Re:Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a d... by danharaj on Saturday October 27, 2018 @10:45AM (#18315883)
Shockingly, very few things protect you from people saying bad things about you on the Internet.
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Re:Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a d... by angrow on Saturday October 27, 2018 @02:55PM (#18317151)
No need to turn to his associations for evidence, you're free to read his work and judge for yourself.
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Re:Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a d... by Viliam1234 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:55PM (#18323129)
The whole point of character assassination is to make people less likely to actually read it.
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Re:Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a d... by drb91 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @07:21PM (#18323837)
You can read his work and evaluate for yourself.
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